Classic cars and classy sound

[yggdrasil]

Some 20 years ago a friend of mine equipped a small BMW with a pair of 075, and a pair of 375's on the 5038 horn. He used a Cerwin Vega 18" car woofer with a 2 channel coil.


With a 300watt amplifier he kept blowing the woofer. Didn't take pictures though. Sorry.

[johnaec]

Here's something I posted last summer about the audio in my T-Bird: http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...ead.php?t=2883

I also have a Lincoln Mark VIII with factory JBL Premium Audio - it's still the best stock system I've ever heard in a car.

John

[57BELAIRE]

Some 20 years ago a friend of mine equipped a small BMW with a pair of 075, and a pair of 375's on the 5038 horn. He used a Cerwin Vega 18" car woofer with a 2 channel coil.


With a 300watt amplifier he kept blowing the woofer. Didn't take pictures though. Sorry.

Hmmmmmm.......so thats what what's goin' on with some of those Bavarian Paragons.

Just put some wheels on 'em... slap on a Beemer badge, and you're off an runnin'...but a single CV '18.... not twin 15's?

I have to admit , I do have a fondness for Cerwin Vega 18's and I'm just trying to imagine the spl in that ride.

[louped garouv]

most of teh guys I know that had massive auto systems used ear plugs.....


that way they could annoy anyone on the highway within a (few) mile(s), maybe; and still have their own hearing intact...

[Michael Smith]

I too have a copy of of the Altec advert,but boys have a look at this and play fair.
Note the head phones ear muffs ( what ever ) and I lost the other photo showing all the bi radials in the doors.
I was offered a sit and listen and declined as they said "Say what"
Only in Texas and I loved it!
So think about that
Regards
Michael

[yggdrasil]

I have to admit , I do have a fondness for Cerwin Vega 18's and I'm just trying to imagine the spl in that ride.

Acutally on one occation (I was fortunate not to be there) they were parked outside a disco, playing (a little). After a while one of the employees of the disco came out begging them not to play so loud...

And, yes the parts came from a home built paragon.

[Ian Mackenzie]

Well Bo "Ol Tin Ear" is our own living legend when it comes to car Auto Sub change outs.

I've told the story too many times so let's hear it from Bo...

Dang Yankee

Ian

[Audiobeer]

No offense, but I hate car audio stuff, jBL or not on a website for Home and Studio speakers. Just my 2 cents and I hate to offend anyone.

What an arragont ass. If you don't like it move on. It appears you are in the minority bargain basement breath. What's the matter.....not impressed with your Kraco 8 track Beotch?

[Zilch]

8-track is a CULT, actually.

Watch yer back!

[Audiobeer]

I have a neighbor that has a bunch of sealed 8 tracks he bought at a garage sail in the early 80s. Cream, Jeff Airplane, all kinds of them. He's saving them for his Baracuda Hemi restoration!

[Robh3606]

I had an 8 Track player in my 1970 Mustang Fastback. I miss the ka-chunk as the tracks changed and the tape slowing down as it got tighter and tighter inside the cassette.


Rob

[Titanium Dome]

My Dad (80 years old) has an 8 track head unit running off a car battery that he still plays. Gosh, the sh!t that he listens to! But he loves it!

[jblnut]

No offense, but I hate car audio stuff, jBL or not on a website for Home and Studio speakers. Just my 2 cents and I hate to offend anyone.

Not to be curmudgeony(?), but I'm in that camp too. The car is the last place I want to invest huge $$$ into audio. People steal it, the temperature swings and vibration are hell on electronics and the accoustics and noise levels rule out anything resembling critical listening. Hey I had some Jensen triaxes and a high-power cassete receiver like everyone else back in the day, but I never stepped up with CD, huge amps and a trunk full of subs.

That said I've heard some really killer systems, but it just never appealed to me personally...

jblnut

[JuniorJBL]

8-track is a CULT, actually.

Watch yer back!

I have a few members who live on my block

[Titanium Dome]

Not to be curmudgeony(?), but I'm in that camp too. The car is the last place I want to invest huge $$$ into audio. People steal it, the temperature swings and vibration are hell on electronics and the accoustics and noise levels rule out anything resembling critical listening. Hey I had some Jensen triaxes and a high-power cassete receiver like everyone else back in the day, but I never stepped up with CD, huge amps and a trunk full of subs.

That said I've heard some really killer systems, but it just never appealed to me personally...

jblnut

I think I get where you're coming from. If things don't appeal to you, they don't appeal to you.

IME the idea of "critical listening" is not the same in car audio as it is in home audio. I don't have the same expectations or even the same desires in sound reproduction. If critical listening only has one definition in somone's lexicon, then that's what it is. In my personal dictionary, it's got several meanings, all of which are correct in their context.